household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural …

migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration …

migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more educated, more likely to lend money to friends …

to what extent city social networks alleviate mental health problems among these migrants. Using the longitudinal migrant … suggest that an additional person in the city social networks of migrants reduces GHQ 12 by 0.12 to 0.16 Likert points. The … results are robust for migrants who are less educated, who work long hours and who do not have access to social insurances in …

data from male rural-urban migrants prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine whether parental absence in …

examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved … into poverty …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and … show how the answer depends on the migration response, where the poverty line lies relative to incomes in the three …

residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … outspoken in middle and low-ranking cities in 2018. However, rural to urban migrants living in high-ranking cities had a …

poverty of households with U.S. citizen children by 4 percent. The effect is robust to a number of identification tests …